Sectional wheel



(No Model.)

P. H. WILLIAMS.

SBGTIONAL WHEEL.

No. 531,820. PatentedvJan. l, 1895i 9% NY @q bi qf i y'. Q- yglllllllllllIly v -.1:5

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UNITED STATES PATENT einen.

PERRY HAZZARD XVILLIAMS, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- TIIIRDSTO SAMUEL J. VEAVER AND DAVID R. VILLIAMS, OF ST. LOUIS,

MISSOURI.

SECTIONAL WH EL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,820, dated Januaryl, 1 895.

Application filed February 15, 1894. Serial No. 500,192. (No modelJ To@ZZ whom if; may concern; As shown inFig. 2,the boltDpasses through Beit known that l, PERRY HAZZARD NIL- an aperture in the flange F of thespoke B and L'IAMS, of Memphis, in the county of Shelby engages theslots in the lugsE of the rim sec and State of Tennessee, have inventeda new tion A while the other bolt D engages slots 5 and ImprovedSectional Wheel, of which the in both the ilange F and lugs E. The bolt55 following is a full, clear, and exact descrip- D is put in placeafter the section B has been tion. fastened in position on the partialhub A3, as

The object of the invention is to provide a previously described. New,it will be seen new and improved sectional wheel, which is that when thesection B is removed from the ro simple and durable in construction, andarsection A the latter can be readily placed in 6o ranged for attachingit to a shaft without reposition on a shaft, Without removing the movingthe latter from its bearings. shaft from its bearings, by placing thesec- Theinvention consists of certain parts and tion A in position onthe shaft, the latter details, and combinations of the saine, as passingthrough the space between the ends 15 will be fully describedhereinafter and then of the rim section A to thus engage the sec- 65pointed out in the claims. tional hub A8. The section B is then placedReference is to be had to the accompanying in position and bolted at itsflanges B4 to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, seatsA4, after which the bolts D and D are in which similar letters ofreference indicate fastened in place in the lugs E and flanges F,

zo corresponding parts in all the figures. to securely hold the sectionB in position on 7o Figure 1 is a face view of the improvement thesection A at its inner as well as at its outer arranged as a gear wheel.Fig. 2 is a transend. verse section of the same on the line 2-2 ofHaving thus fully described my invention, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a rearface view of part I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 2 f ofthe improvement. Patent- The improved Wheel is made in two princil. Asectional wheel, consisting of the secpal sections A and B, of which thesection A tion Aformed with the broken rim A having is provided with therim A', the spokes A2, the depending lugs F., spokes A2, and the parandthe partial hub A3, as is plainly shown in tial hub A3, having seats A4,the section B 3o Fig. l. The section B is provided with the formed withthe rim part B', the spoke B2 and 8o rim part B', forming with the rim Athe comsectional hub B3 provided With flanges B4, and plete rim of thewheel, and the said rim part bolts for securing the hub sectionstogether B is formed on a spoke B2, carrying a secand the outer part ofthe spoke B2 between tional hub B3 provided with ilanges B4, fitted thelugs of the section A, substantially as 3 5 into corresponding seats A4formed on the shown and described. 8:, sides of the partial hub AS, asis plainly shown 2. In a sectional wheel, the combination in Fig. l. Theanges B4 are held in position with the section A having abroken rim andon the seats A by bolts C. asectionalhub, and provided with slotted lugsThe rim part B is only of such length as to depending from the ends ofthe rim, of the 4o permit of passing the shaft for the wheel hub sectionB, comprising the rim section B', the 9o through the opening formed inthe rim A at spoke B having lianges F, and the hub secthe time thesection B is removed. In order tion B3 having the flanges B4, the boltsO seto hold the outer part of the section B in curing the said flangesto the hub of the secplace on the section A, I provide two bolts D tionA, and the bolts D D', engaging the lugs 45 and D held in lugs Edepending from the and anges, substantially as herein shown 95 ends ofthe rim sections A', as is plainly and described.

shown in Figs. l and 3. The bolts D and D PERRY HAZZARD `i/VILLIAMS.engage the section B so as to securely fasten Witnesses: the outer partof the latter in place to com# JNO. T. HUDSON,

5o plete the entire wheel. JAMES J. BURKE.

